Basics Illustration: Thinking Visually by Mark Wigan features a wide range of work, demonstrating diverse visual languages, context, ideas, techniques and skills. It also looks at the ways in which illustrators develop their own personal visual language. Contemporary illustrators from all over the world engaged in a diverse range of approaches to the discipline have contributed their artwork and commentaries on visual thinking and the working process. The text also features the work of recent graduates, present students and observations from educators past and present. This edition has been updated to include a new chapter on illustration for the digital context and new approaches to working. A host of contributors will also be supplying new work, broadening the international scope of the book.
Introduction How to get the most out of this book Chapter One: Getting started Ideas generation Research In focus: Yuko Kondo Sketchbooks Inspirations Chapter Two: Ways of drawing A history of illustration Outsider art The portrait In focus: Miles Donovan Life drawing Chapter Three: Experimenting Quotes Print workshop Cross-media and cultural cut-ups Chapter Four: Types of illustration Social commentary Caricature The decorative In focus: Aubrey Beardsley Reportage Underground urban street art In focus: Jean Michel Basquiat Fantastic worlds In focus: Jorge Goytizola In focus: A Secret Club In focus: Daniel Bueno Chapter Five: The new digital paradigm The next big thing in illustration In focus: Micah Lidberg In focus: Merjin Hos The future is now In focus: Catherine McIntyre Flexibility Chapter Six: A career in illustration Collaboration In focus: Priya Sundram In focus: Big Active Briefs and deadlines Industry insights Appendix The projects Glossary Canon of key artists and illustrators Bibliography Conclusion Index Acknowledgements
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